The Chancellor is the University’s highest administrative officer. He is responsible for the budget, is ex officio consultative member of all commissions and committees of the University, and can officially comment on any matter of relevance to the state and development of the University. The Chancellor is appointed directly by the Minister of Science and Art.

Wolf-Eckhard Wormser

Wolf-Eckhard Wormser

*13 April 1956 in Heilbronn
Degree course in economics at the University of Heidelberg / graduation as “Diplomvolkswirt”
1980-1984 Assistant at the Institute for International Comparative and Social Statistics at the University of Heidelberg
1984-1990 Research assistant in the Department of Economics at the University of Osnabrück
1990 – 1993 Deputy head of the administrative department for planning, EDP, safety, buildings and land at the Ruprecht Karl University in Heidelberg
1993 - 2003 Head of the administrative department for financial and economic affairs at the Ruprecht Karl University in Heidelberg
2003 – 2007 Chancellor of the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg
since 1 September 2007 Chancellor of TU Dresden

Wolf-Eckhard Wormser is the chairman of the task force university accounting and taxes of chancellors of the German universities.